The splayed-out list of months in Flex Watch isn’t sorted chronologically, so sometimes it says January, October, January at once, which can get confusing. The visualization helps you automatically pinpoint when it might be the right time to fly. When you search for flights with the regular search bar, it pulls up a calendar that’s color-coded with red, yellow, and green to note expensive dates and affordable ones best for traveling on. In some ways, the rest of Hopper is more intuitive to use. That’s great and all, but I can barely muster up a list of tourist attractions I’m interested in seeing there. Flex Watch also points out flying to Fuzhou, China, in January is the cheapest flight in all of Asia, at $383 currently. I don’t know how many coats I would have to pack on a trip like that, but I’d rather not find out. For example, it recommended that I fly to Norway, Iceland, and other wintry countries in December and January to save money. The downside to Flex Watch is that since it’s sorted by lowest price first, the trips that show up first on the list are usually less than ideal. The normal search function in Hopper still works better for that, as you have to name a specific location. Hopper’s design, with illustrations of travel locations, and user experience make everything really nice to look at, and are on brand with the bunny illustrations that populate the rest of Hopper.įlex Watch isn’t a feature for those who know exactly when and where they want to go or for those who want to travel more than two weeks at a time.
When your results come out, it’s a selection of cities sorted by price. You can also add multiple destinations at once.
This can be as broad as naming all of Asia or Europe. Then you just set your departure destination and your general arrival area that you’re interested in. To get started, you tap Flex Watch on the homepage, and then you’re brought to a screen that asks for your preferred trip date range (in months) and your preferred trip duration. If you’re like me and you haven’t been to many places, this is useful for nabbing a cheap ticket to Toronto, sightseeing in Paris, or swimming in Cancun. With Flex Watch, you can search for a whole continent at once, and view cities sorted from lowest price to highest instead of having to go by individual airports. Travel app Hopper is introducing a new time-saving feature today on iOS for those of us who are planning a vacation and just don’t care where the actual destination is.
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